Know Your Rights

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAININGS

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Community Education

Community Education and Training Program Descriptions

Know Your Rights/Conoce Tus Derechos Program

The core RAICES Know Your Rights/Conoce Tus Derechos program includes a 25-minute presentation followed by a Q&A session. The presentation material is available in Spanish and English. Content covered includes what to do when stopped by law enforcement, when detained by immigration and how to prepare as a family for potential ICE detention.

Sanctuary Congregations/Organizations

Sanctuary is a spectrum of activities from providing immigration accompaniment, providing space for trainings and workshops, to housing individuals seeking refuge from deportation. Training for congregations is provided in collaboration with local Sanctuary networks.

Community Accompaniment

Accompaniment is a method through which allied individuals, organizations, and congregations provide solidarity to individuals facing deportation or contact with immigration officials for which they would like support. The process supported by RAICES and local sanctuary networks staff, the congregation and family build mutual, long-term relationships to stop the deportation, serve as a witness in spaces of injustice, and collectively grow as community leaders in the fight for immigrant rights. Volunteers are trained to provide accompaniment to ICE Check-Ins, Court Dates, to pay bonds, and future training are planned for checkpoint accompaniment.

Reproductive Health Accompaniment

People seeking to access abortion care while in immigration detention face significant barriers. In collaboration with CARA and our Family Detention program, RAICES assists individuals with housing, transportation, and accompaniment for people seeking to access abortion when released from immigration detention. This intensive training is 4 hours and requires pre-screening of volunteers.

Bus Station Legal Orientation – San Antonio

Families released from the Karnes and Dilley Family Detention Centers arrive at the Greyhound Bus Station in San Antonio with little to sustain them through journeys of many days to their final destination. In collaboration with the Interfaith Welcome Coalition, RAICES volunteers provide brief Know Your Rights presentations and orientations to their legal paperwork. Spanish fluency required.

Emergency Response Volunteer Training – San Antonio

In 2015 and 2016, ICE released several hundred families from immigration detention in a mass release. On both occasions, RAICES responded by providing shelter and services to the families until they were able to connect with their families and their final destination. This workshop prepares volunteers to respond in the event of another mass release in our community.